Sentences with phrase «penitent know»

The truly penitent know that complexification is the enemy of forgiveness.

Not exact matches

Good confessors know to guide their penitents toward full repentance by helping them reflect upon what they may do to free themselves from a difficult predicament or even an apparent dilemma.

I do know that if I followed the guidelines of one liturgical commission, suggesting that I greet each penitent at the church doors with an open Gospel book and then lead a procession to a reconciliation room which looks more like an occasion of sin than a shrine for its absolution, the number of confessions in the middle of the metropolis where I serve would be severely reduced.

The Sacrament of Penance is there for the forgiveness of sin, and is no mere ritual — it involves the penitent confessing specific sins with the intention of no longer continuing in them, receiving God's grace for this commitment.

«No, because my own experience... was that regular penitents came back with exactly the same words week after week.

No, his despair over sin, and all the more, the more it storms in the passion of expression, whereby without being aware of it in the least he informs against himself when he «never can forgive himself» that he could sin thus (for this sort of talk is pretty nearly the opposite of penitent contrition which prays God for forgiveness)-- this despair is far from being a characteristic of the good, rather it is a more intensive characterization of sin, the intensity of which is a deeper sinking into sin.

And her own sins and secrets impel her to consort with one — and only one — penitent soul whose accusing conscience has brought him here: a damaged man, no longer a soldier, who once joined two comrades to defile a teenage girl in the Louisiana wood.

In Denison's court, people who «knew their place» (retired soldiers, hard - working British immigrants, and the penitent) could expect leniency.